Tim Robey | Box Office Poison Dub/Reggae Butler to the World is

Butler to the World is the story of how we became a nation of Jeeveses - and how it doesn't have to be this way

It's for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole

And the stream of their creative admirers and continuators has been constantly widening since the first fans like David Bowie and Iggy Pop: whether Blur

In a decade of making records by himself

residual haunting) to influence Hauntological music such as Boards of Canada or The Caretaker

Tim Robey | Box Office Poison Dub/Reggae Butler to the World is9780571381210 11 09 25 PB 352 pages So entertaining, smart and funny. DAVID NICHOLLS Beautifully written. I really enjoyed it. MARINA HYDE A fabulous shadow history of Tinseltown. TLS Fascinating. EMPIRE Wildly enjoyable. GUARDIAN Hugely entertaining. PROSPECT Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . . In his hugely acclaimed alternative history of Hollywood, Tim Robey leads us through a century of its most notable flops.