He co-wrote the 2014 book "Make Us Dream" with John Gibbons about the 2013-14 Liverpool F.C. season as well as "Numero 6" in 2019, about Liverpool’s 2018–19 season culminating in their 2019 UEFA Champions League Final victory, their sixth European Cup triumph. In August 2019 with Michael MacCambridge Atkinson began "Red Letters", a weekly correspondence about the Liverpool Football Club for the Liverpool Echo’s American website, which is being edited into a book.