US author Cormac McCarthy dies aged 89

Cormac McCarthy - America's Pulitzer Prize-winning author - has died aged 89, his publisher has announced.

In its statement, Penguin Random House said the writer died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

McCarthy's books included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were turned into successful films.

Many of his novels were violent tales describing the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds. In real life, he was said to be a very private man.