Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood Dandelion wine / Ray Bradbury Under the jaguar sun / Italo Calvino The adulterous woman / Albert Camus Le chevalier / Mohamed Choukri Summer / Julio Cortázar Games at twilight / Anita Desai Postcards from surfers / Helen Garner On fire / Isabel Huggan The wasps / Shimaki Kensaku A pornographer woos / Bernard MacLaverty The pool / Daphne du Maurier Miss Forbes's summer of happiness / Gabriel García Márquez Hired girl / Alice Munro The new family Robinson / Ludmila Petrushevskaya The view from the balcony / Wallace Stegner Learning to swim / Graham Swift Flesh / Elizabeth Taylor Lifeguard / John Updike Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams Early in the summer of 1970 / A.B. Yehoshua